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Meta along with Ray-Ban announced new smart glasses and the YT reviewers are praising it.

For me, I don't find them particularly good and being a Meta product, it will be horrible for privacy. Also people can record others without their knowledge with these, hell no!

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[–] Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I would love a pair of smart glasses to augment what I'm seeing... Give me context, keep me informed, allow me to monitor things closely, yet passively, and let me do it all inconspicuously and unobtrusively! Even better if it has eye tracking navigation.

Oh, and make sure the hardware and software are open source and self-hosted. If it has all of that I'm in, 100%.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Open source and self hosted doesn't protect others from you recording surreptitiously. You're totally understanding the problem.

Good point.

I also want my smart glasses to shine an IR light on my face to help protect my identity from others recording me.

[–] EvilBit@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

I’m curious enough about Brilliant Halo to have preordered one, but my expectations are tempered. It’s a lot like what you described.